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7 Keys To Making A Business Out Of Your Great Product

Startup Professionals Musings

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. Save your viral campaign and major inventory buildup for later. These two jobs need to be done in parallel. Good traction on a limited rollout is great validation of a business model.

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7 Steps To A New Business From An Innovative Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. Save your viral campaign and major inventory buildup for later. These two jobs need to be done in parallel. Good traction on a limited rollout is great validation of a business model.

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. and (2) their leadership position in multi-billion dollar markets will likely make them dominant players in the software landscape, even though they are still small today (SuccessFactors $2.5B

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Viral, Social, Sentiment, Mobile: 4 Delightful Web Analytics Solutions

Occam's Razor

Let's go look at some tools… Measuring "Invisible Virality": Tynt. The way it works is that when someone copies a piece of content Tynt adds a little bit of additional text and a trackable code with a hash (#) at the end of the url from where content was copied. Goes viral. Invisible Virality.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

There is nothing viral! Because Bird was first to market, extremely innovative, quick to hire talented leadership and an experienced founder it was able to raise $125 million in an extraordinarily short period of time. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Anybody can launch a scooter service! Not really.

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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

The Next Web

One explanation is that “growth hacking” is just a catchy way to rebrand marketers, but this begs the question as to why “growth hacking” went viral in the first place. Deloitte’s Shift Index , which tracks economic competitiveness, has shown a long-run decline in a firm’s ability to retain market leadership. Channel instability.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

When I want to know about some concurrency issues between services in his cluster, he doesnt blink an eye when I suggest we get the source code and take a look. Hes just as comfortable writing code as racking servers, debugging windows drivers, or devising new interview questions. He throws off volumes of code, and it works.